You need to sign a CLA to work on Go, like most Google projects. You can't accidentally use your personal email address, and setting up the CLA signing stuff is somewhat involved.
Ok that's curious, cus I've spent the last two years working on a project at Google that's half open source, and the guidance we got was to use an existing non-google github account for contributions if you had one and wanted to.
But this is also like a developed-in-open-source project, not a built-internally-and-copied-outside, so maybe the guidance differs there?
> and the guidance we got was to use an existing non-google github account for contributions if you had one and wanted to.
This is correct. Use an existing github account, but your contributions should be under your @google email address. There's nothing that ties your github account to a git email. I've committed through github from like 4 different email addresses (@google, @gmail, @uni.edu, and a shared organizational one for a project from a shared machine).
Ah gotcha, yes we're agreed then. The underlying commits are supposed to be tied to your @google account (though a not insignificant number slip through)
